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I'm with Orwell on this one. Whether by design or "happy" accident, Trump exemplifies the trend for politicians to be vague. Or as he puts it, speaking like this "is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

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Is this the syllogism?

    Trump uses political language
    political language makes murder respectable
    ------
    Trump makes murder respectable

Why focus on Trump then? Care to name a politician who's not using political language? That seems to be an oxymoron.

Trump was against the Iraq War, probably the biggest killing event of the last xxx years.

No, this wasn't intended to slyly indicate that "Trump makes murder respectable". Were I to make that bold accusation I'd want to debate that on another forum than HN and base it on things Trump has actually stated.

Regardless of politics, Trump has a very idiosyncratic approach to speaking. His mastery of this approach reminds me strongly of the Orwell essay linked above.

I've no desire to debate Trumps policies on HN, but find his approach to speaking quite interesting.

Thanks for clarifying. I do agree that his speaking style is different and interesting.

“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” Trump said.

So in a way, yes, he has made murder respectable. The previous two POTUS' made murder respectable by using remote controlled flying bombs.

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